November 2008
43 posts
“A rock star used to be a demigod who bathed in money each morning. In the...”
– Well, we can dream, can’t we? — Word Magazine (via Chris Muscarella)
October 2008
25 posts
My First Mac
So it’s no secret that I adore Macs, but I have harbored a secret, nay furtive, shame in never having owned one (for a variety of reasons, all practical, technical, or otherwise boring).
Since the age of 6 I have been in enduring, dependable relationships with various PCs: Dell computers (laptops of the Inspiron and Latitude varieties), IBM machines (before this era of Lenovo), and even...
“Buy American. I Am.”
– Warren Buffet, via NYT
Notes from Brandhackers
Two favorite takeaways from last night’s presentation and discussion of SEO and SEM for brands, featuring search experts:
Rebecca Lieb (former CEO of SearchEngineWatch.com and curent consultant to ClickZ): The continued rise of mobile will make SEO an even tighter game than it is now. Maintaining an above-the-fold position on page one of search results on mobile devices is at least twice...
Barack Obama's Fifty State Strategy
Michael Bierut, via Pentagram (the preeminent design shop that also runs a savvy blog, highlighting their and others’ projects. Great place for outside-of-your-everyday-world inspiration.)
“technophobes and Luddites, a demographic for which e-readers like the Kindle...”
– Continuing the anti-Kindle campaign, via Wired.
Designing an iPhone App
Gorgeous pen-and-inks of an iPhone app’s UI. Love how both usability and design merge into a joint aesthetic here.
The comps are from Cultured Code’s Things app, which I’d like to download, but don’t feel like spending $9.99 on to test out. Anyone using/enjoying products from these guys?
(Link via Matthew Buchanan)
“I had not really… felt that women, now in the twenty-first century, still...”
– Arianna Huffington, admitting that although our gender war has quieted, we’re still fighting it (via a fascinating profile in The New Yorker)
The Rip Van Winkle Approach
One man’s solution to the problem of information overload, specifically our addiction to news: duck out for a few decades until it’s all reported and done with. (via NYT)
What's the smartest marketing you've ever seen... →
John Battelle queries the LinkedIn population for their responses. Interesting collection of anecdotes with wisdom from both perspectives: consumers and marketers.
“Boom and busts happen to every industry. The question is whether you have the...”
– Mark Cuban, “How to Get Rich”
What's Your Tumblr Number? →
Mine is 651 (of about 440,000 Tumblrs). I pretty much signed up for Tumblr the first day I read about it on TechCrunch or some other startup source.
The iPhone is a Kindle-Killer
This has seemed so obvious since the Kindle’s introduction, yet the backward-thinking team at Amazon still churns out the things. I continue to raise confused eyebrows at the Kindle and its popularity. Obviously the iPhone lacks some features (battery life, screen size, etc) that make the Kindle better-suited for book-browsing, but really the Kindle is just a narrower, more specific, and...
“Online we’re bigger than all but a few of the biggest mainstream news...”
– Nick Denton (via NYT today, commenting on this “Black Friday”)